Machine for tightening wire hoops upon jacketed cans or other vessels.



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7 J. G. HODGSON. MACHINE FOR TIGHTENING WIRE HOOPS UPON JAOKETE'O-OANS OR OTHER VESSELS.

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MACHINE FOR TIGHTENING WIRE HOOPS-UPON JACKETED CANS OR OTHER VESSELS.

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UNITED- STATE PATENT ()FFICE.

JOHN G. noDesoN, OF MAYWOOD, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGN- MENTS, TO THE AMERICAN CAN COMPANY, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

MACHINE FOR TlGHTENiNG WIRE HOOPS. UPON JACKETED CANS OR OTHER VESSELS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 676,232, dated June 11, 1901.

Application filed October 22, 1900. Serial No. 33,967. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known thatI, JOHN G. HODGSON, a citizen of the United States, residingin Maywood, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Machines for Tightening Wire Hoops upon J acketed Cans or other Vessels, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to machines for tight- My invention consists in the means I have devised for practically accomplishing this result-=-that is to say, it consists in the combination ,with a movable holder upon which the jacketed can or other vessel is placed, of a series of pairs of segmental curved opening and closing wirehoop-corrugating jaws between which the several, hoops of the vessel are brought by the upward movement of the vessel-holder and which close together upon the wire hoops and form a series of corrugations or short bends therein, thus simultaneously tighteningthe hoops upon the vessel, the curvature of the segmental jaws corresponding to that of the jacketed can or vessel being operated upon.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure l is a front elevation of a machine embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is avertical cross-section on line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 isa plan view. Fig. 4 is a detail bottom view of one pair of the curved segmental corrugating-jaws; and Fig. '5 isaplan view of awood-veneerjacketed can, showing its wire hoops after being tightened in the machine.

In said drawings, A represents the frame of the machine.

B is the movable holder in which the woodveneer jacketed can or other vessel X is placed While its wire hoops w are being operated upon. The vessel-holder. B is moved up and down, as required, by a treadle C through the connecting-link C and lever O of the holder. The lever O is pivoted to a support 0 which is furnished with aseries of pivot-holes 0 as are also the link 0' and stem B, to enable the machine to be adjusted for operation upon vessels of different sizes or diameters.

The holder B is provided with transverse grooves b to receivethe wire hoops to of the vessel and with a gage or guide B for the end of the vessel to abut against. I V D D are the segmental curved opening and closing wire-corrugatin g jaws, the operating levers D D of each pair being pivoted to'- gether by a pin d, which passes through a horizontal slot f in a bar F, upon which the operating-levers of the corrugating-jars are thus all pivotally mounted. In their seg mental curved meeting faces the jaws D are each provided with a series of corrugations d.

The pairs of jaws D D are normally held open by springs 01 so as to receive between themthe wire hoops as of the vessel, the curvature of the jaws being concentric with the vessel X upon which the hoops are to be tightened. The operatingelevers D D are forcibly closed by segmental curved wedgeshaped arms G on a rock-shaft G,which forces said wedges or arms G between the upper ends of the corrugating-jaw levers D, the same being preferably furnished with antifriction-rollers d at their upper ends. The shaft G is given a rocking movement as required from the driving-shaft H, which has a crank or disk 11, connected by a pitman h with a crank-arm g on the rock-shaft G.

K is the clutch-lever, which acts through the shaft K, arm K pin K and slide K to operate the clutch P, by which the drivingshaft H is clutched to the driving-pulleyR.

The segmental corrugating-jaws D are removably secured to the levers D, so that they may be conveniently removed when worn and i replaced by new ones and also to adapt the same machine for operation upon vessels of different sizes by simply changing the jaws on the operating-levers D and properly adjusting the holder B. V

The treadleO is provided with a rest C having adjustable stop-pins CF to limit the downward movement of the treadle,an 1 thus cause the'vessel Xtobe held in properiposi-i tion to cause its hoops as w m to register with the several pairs of jaws D D.

p I clain1r I 1. The machine for tightening wire hoops upon jacketed cans or other vessels, c'OIl Pris-i ing'in combination a movable holderfor the vessel and a series of pairs of opening and closing segmental curved corrugating-jaws,. and a rock-shaft having wedge-arms for operating said jaws, substantially as --specified.- 2. The combination with a vessel-holder, of,

segmental curved wire hoop corrugating jaws, substantially as specified.

3. The combination with a movable vesselholder,.ot a series of pairs of wire-hoop-cor-I rugating jaws'for tightening the hoops on the. vessel, .substan tially as specified.

4. The combination with a vessel-holder, of segmental curved wire-hoop-corrngating jaws, and means for operating said jaws, substantially as specified.

5. The combination with a movable vesselholder, of segmental curved wire-hoop-corrugatiugjaws, levers therefor, and a rock-shaft having a wedge-arm for operating said levers,

WVitnesses EDM ND ADCQOK, H. M. MUNDAY. 

